Ridgefield Park, NJ
Ridgefield Park wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ridgefield Park at the 18th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,522 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ridgefield Park at the 20th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 2% of Ridgefield Park's 3,522 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Ridgefield Park ranks
There's little gap between Ridgefield Park's 18th national percentile and its 4th percentile inside New Jersey, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ridgefield Park ranks 25,782 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,745 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Jersey alone, it ranks 677 of 700 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Jersey on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ridgefield Park
Ridgefield Park's low rating (18th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Ridgefield Park's 98% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,522 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Ridgefield Park. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ridgefield Park, see the exposure-zones guide.